sun dance

1. 1.

   a ceremonial dance performed by Amerindians at the summer solstice

   Broaderritual dancing

Questions about sun dance

What does sun dance mean?

sun dance means "a ceremonial dance performed by Amerindians at the summer solstice".

Is sun dance a common word?

sun dance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.